Following the release of the newest Mirosoft Studios Forza Horizon 3 racing game, Nvidia has released its new Geforce 372.90 Game Ready drivers, coming with all the optimizations for that game.

In addition to providing what it describes as the optimal gaming experience for the Forza Horizon 3 game, the new Geforce 372.90 Game Ready drivers also add a new SLI profile for ARK: Survival Evolved game.

According to earlier released system requirements, you will need Intel's Core i7-3820 CPU, Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 or GTX 1060 graphics cards, 12GB of RAM and 64-bit Windows 10 OS in order to fulfill the recommended requirements, which will probably get you a decent level of eye-candy.

Earlier today, Microsoft Studios has also released the official launch trailer for Forza Horizon 3, showing some of the details from the game, including a couple of the 350 cars available in the game, including the Ford F-150 Raptor and Lamborghini Centenario, as well as details from Australia, where the new open world racing game is set.

In case you missed it, Forza Horizon 3 will be available on the PC and Xbox One.

As always, the new Nvidia Geforce 372.90 Game Ready drivers are available for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7 OS in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions and support all Nvidia desktop and notebooks GPUs since the Fermi-based Geforce 400 series.

While Microsoft didn't get too specific they did go out of there way on the Xbox Wire recap to say that not only Fable Legends was going to be coming to the PC.

While Microsoft announced that Fable Legends would be coming to Window 10, they said nothing about future titles.

The news that they are planning to bring other Microsoft franchises to the PC could mean a lot of things. However, we have already seen some of this with Xbox exclusives like Dead Rising 3 and Ryse Son of Rome coming to the PC after they had been exclusives on the Xbox One for a time. This is a trend that we think is going to continue.

As for what we might see... anything is possible but Forza comes to mind as a conversion of it was recently used for a demo. Sunset Overdrive and Screamride are two more titles we think are prime candidates. Maybe even Halo: The Master Chief Collection could end up on the Windows 10 PC at some point in the future. Don't forget that Microsoft owns a lot of older IP from the PC side that would be excellent starting ground of new or reimagined versions of some of these for updated releases.

Still a few days away from release in North America and a week away in Europe, the review scores have started to filter in for Forza Horizon 2. Forza Horizon 2 which was developed by Playground Games in conjunction with Turn 10 Studios is one of the big exclusive titles for the Xbox One this year and one of several racers that will be released before the end of the year.

Based on what Playground did with the first Horizon, the new Horizon 2 takes things to the max with it being larger, with more cars, six radio stations to drive by programed by Rob Da Bank, and it adds the ability to take the racing off road. It does not have microtransactions (at least not at launch, but so far it seems like we will not be seeing any), it does have a season car DLC pass, and like other Froza titles you have the ability to purchase a VIP membership which grants you additional cars. Still from what we are hearing, getting additional cars isn’t an issue as the game is pretty liberal handing them out.

The reviews have been positive with the majority of the scores being 8s and 9s with a Metacritic rating of 86 as of the time of this writing. There is still time to get your pre-order in with your favorite retailer or choose to do the electronic download purchase. The game is set for release on September 30th in North America with the UK launch set for October 3rd. You can also still download the demo and play through it so you can get the free cars when you purchase the actual game.

Looks like a solid exclusive for the Xbox One and the rush of holiday releases is now in full swing and Microsoft is off to a good start with Forza Horizon 2.

The developers behind State of Decay that has been such a hit on the Xbox 360 has some exciting news. The studio known as Undead Labs, has signed a multi-year/multi-title development deal with Microsoft Studios going forward. While they can’t share all of the details right now, it is exciting news for the developers.

The folks at Undead Labs realize that it is the support of everyone that purchased State of Decay and spread the word about the title that made the difference. Big stuff is coming to State of Decay, but the developers can’t say more than that right now.

As for the future, the developers have nothing to announce right now, but will have an announcement at some point in the future. They would like to build some prototypes and before they have anything additional to add.

Fans of the new Forza Horizon game can get excited about the fact that the next Car Pack for the game will arrive on November 6th; that is, if you are able to pry yourself away from Halo 4 long enough to download it and check it out.

Known as the “Bondurant Car Pack,” the DLC package will consist of six new cars for players to buy and check out. The six new cars are: 2012 Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Spyder; 2012 Shelby 1000; 2010 BMW M3 GTS; 1994 Nissan 240SX SE; 2012 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon; and 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C. Each offers a unique brand of entertainment to the already loaded car collection within Forza Horizon.

The Bondurant Car Pack will cost 400 Microsoft Points, or it will be free for Forza Horizon Season Pass holders. Season Pass holders will want to remember that in order it get it for free you need to download the Bondurant Car Pack from within the Forza Horizon game.

A new London-based studio to be run by Lee Schuneman will be the latest opening by Microsoft Studios. The new studio will focus exclusively on the Windows 8 Tablet project with the goal of developing a long-term business with Entertainment as a Service as its core.

Schuneman, a veteran of Rare, did not offer any specifics as to what they would be working on. The studio is hiring and will not be fully open and running till November. Microsoft claims that they wanted to get the word out to head off rumors and speculation about what they might be up to.

The move by Microsoft signals that the company has the desire to generate software for the tablet market, as they know that it will take software to make the new Windows 8 tablet devices successful.

Microsoft has announced a new game that will be coming to the Forza franchise. The new title will be called Forza Horizon, and it is on track for an exclusive Xbox 360 release in the fall of 2012.

Forza Horizon is being developed by a new studio called Playground Games. While the studio is new, the people behind the scenes are not. The studio was founded by Trevor Williams and Nick Wheelright, who are ex-Codemasters alum who worked on DiRT and GRID.

The best news, however, is that the studio is a true racing development studio that features a number of programmers and developers from Black Rock, Bizarre Creations, and Slightly Mad Studios. This studio contains the creative talents that brought us such titles as Pure, Split/Second, Project Gotham Racing, Blur, and the Need for Speed Shift titles in addition to the racing titles developed at Codemasters. It is a power horse racing studio, for sure.

While no gameplay videos have been released for Horizon yet, the game is described as a spin-off that is a fast-paced pickup and play racing title. It is rumored that the game is more of an open world experience that may mirror in some ways what we saw in the recent Test Drive Unlimited offering from Atari.

While the game will be released this fall, we can expect Microsoft to feature Forza Horizon at E3; and it is safe to say we should see some gameplay by then. With the news of Forza Horizon it is also big news that Microsoft will now be releasing a Forza branded title every year, rather than the two-year release schedule that Turn 10 has been on with the Forza Motorsport franchise.